PALINDROME-HUIWEN  

回文法　A piece of text that also makes sense when read in the reverse order from back to front.

Hypernym
  • LITERARY GENRECulturally "Institutionalised" RHETORICAL DEVICE which consists in writing something consciously as belonging to a recognised literary genre or conventionally practised kind of document. These genres or text sorts constitute an evolving repertoire of available genres.
  • WORD-PLAYSPEECH ACT which does not only use words but plays with their form and content.WORD-PLAY
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Here is an anonymous Qing dynasty example which can be read forward and backward starting from any character, thus yielding forty reasonably well-formed rhyming poems:

落花艷舞風

流霧香迷月

薄霞淡雨紅

幽樹芳飛雪

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